Music Industry News

Kevin Eubanks to Perform Thursday, July 29 at Casino Queen

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 9, 2010

Before he took the job leading the band for NBC's Tonight Show 18 years ago, Kevin Eubanks (pictured) had established a very respectable career as a jazz guitarist. Now that Eubanks has left his long-running gig, he's got more time to devote to his own music and to tour, and his live dates this summer will include a performance on Thursday, July 29 at the Casino Queen's Sevens nightclub.Eubanks' band will include former Tonight Show cohort Marvin “Smitty" ...

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Jazz This Week: Peter Martin Trio, Brian Owens, Mardra Thomas and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
June 3, 2010

Though it may not officially be summer until the solstice on June 21, summer weather already seems to moving into St. Louis, and local jazz presenters and venues are putting their summer schedules into effect, for the most part either curtailing their offerings until fall or emphasizing homegrown talent.However, there's still some music to be heard, so let's see what's going on around town over the next few days:Tonight, singer Denise Thimes performs a free concert ...

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Jazz Still a Passing Fad

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2010

Jazz musicians improvise for a living. In L.A., as in the rest of the country, where fewer and fewer arts patrons seek jazz as a music of first choice, players improvise ways to find work.

Los Angeles has been important to jazz, and vice versa, since the musics beginnings. New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who once claimed to have invented jazz, performed on Watts Central Avenue in 1917, and when he died in 1941, he was buried in East ...

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Can MySpace Music Survive the MySpace Decline?

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2010

"MySpace Music profiles remain the simplest, fastest way to check out a new band", argues Ray Padget on Mashable. That's a matter of opinion, but there's no denying that MySpace is still a powerful player in the music space. So the big question may really be, can MySpace Music survive the wider MySpace decline? “Not unless it figures out a better way to keep visitors at the site,“ according to Padaget. “A non-user's typical visit might ...

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Live Nation: Here Come the Summer Ticket Promos

Source: HypeBot
June 2, 2010

Faced with a sometimes sluggish concert season and growing complaints from fans over ticketing fees, Live Nation today announced “No Service Fee June" eliminating service fees on nearly 8 million tickets for 700 shows at all 50 Live Nation owned and operated amphitheaters.

The announcement comes amidst increasing reports of drastic ticket discounting at many shows,. A fan in every seat is our mission this summer," vowed Michael Rapino, head of the newly merged Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Tickets for ...

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Sounding "Young"

Source: Indaba Music Artist in Residence with Greg Osby
June 1, 2010

Here's my answer to a young saxophonist who asked me to evaluate his playing at a competition where I was a guest on the judicial panel.

(He didn't win, by the way.)

“Concerning your playing, I have very few recommendations. You pretty much got every judge's approval at the semi-finals and we all had you hands down as the overall winner. Basically, you lost points during the finals because some of my co-judges felt that you weren't assertive enough during ...

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What Happens when Everyone's a Music Maker?

Source: HypeBot
June 1, 2010

Are we moving from an era of media consumption to one where were are all creators? Blogs enable us all to be writers. Cameras on mobile phones have turned us into photo journalists. Now new apps are bringing music creation to the masses. Dave Hayes explored this phenomenon and predicted an interesting future during his recent presentation at TedxCardiff.

UPDATE: I had some trouble with the code (Sorry to those that it effected yesterday.), so go check it ...

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Too Much Kind of Blue? The Case for Giving Overexposed Masterworks a Rest

Source: Miles Davis Online
June 1, 2010

*Absolutely worth a read this holiday weekend. Hope everyone is doing well!

Richard Williams recently wrote a book called The Blue Moment: Miles Davis Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. I haven't yet read Mr. Williams study of the great jazz trumpeters best-known album, and to be perfectly honest, I doubt I'm going to do so. Why? Because this is, amazingly enough, the third book about Kind of Blue to be published in the past decade. It ...

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